About the Authors

Ali Rostami

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Rostami, Seyed Mohammad Riahi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

alirostami1984@gmail.com, a.rostami@mubabol.ac.ir

Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran, Immunoregulation Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Seyed Mohammad Riahi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Rostami, Seyed Mohammad Riahi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran

Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

H. Ray Gamble

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America

Yadolah Fakhri

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Student Research Committee, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Malihe Nourollahpour Shiadeh

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Masoud Foroutan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Hamed Behniafar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali Taghipour

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Yvonne A. Maldonado

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ali H. Mokdad

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Metrics Science and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Robin B. Gasser

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Melbourne Veterinary School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.